Aslef general secretary DAVE CALFE looks at how rail workers and miners stood together against wage cuts 100 years ago – and why the legacy of collective action endures today
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NICK WRIGHT argues that the deep ideological malaise in ruling-class free-market thinking does not mean that a lacklustre, centrist Labour Party can just expect their turn to govern without some vision for a changed society
Asked to choose between Johnson and Starmer on who would make the best prime minister the clear majority thought “neither” — with a larger margin of opinion convinced that Johnson wouldn’t. More than twice as many people (55 per cent) think Starmer doesn’t look like a prime-minister in waiting than the 25 per cent who do.
As Africa’s progressives aim to consolidate its anti-colonial programme, VIJAY PRASHAD reports on the US getting a military foothold in Ghana
KERRY FLECK explains how the annual event unites thousands in a celebration of workers’ power, culture and collective resistance
The former Nato chief stirred up dark historical undercurrents with his call to cut welfare for military spending, says SOLOMON HUGHES
The life of a modest Norfolk organiser contrasts with the dramatic rise and disappearance of a controversial figure in US labour, says MARK SEDDON
JACK YOUD explains how Salford City Council has taken on rogue landlords and won, setting an example to the rest of the country
AS the days get longer the Health Security Agency has suggested that the latest coronavirus variant, omicron, appears less likely to cause a serious illness or result in hospitalisation than the previously dominant variant.
One conclusion reached on the right of politics is that the threat from Covid is overblown and infection is now no more serious than a minor affliction. This is the unstated but underlying thinking of the “no constraints on business” faction.
If omicron has a reduced effect on some of the infected than earlier variants then this is good news for those individuals.
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